Comcast Gets Into Arena Ticketing Game.(ComcastTIX(venture) that will handle ticket sales)
Multichannel News, September, 2006 by Gibbons, Kent
By Kent Gibbons Comcast Corp.'s latest competitive move involves replacing Ticketmaster in some hometown venues. Last week, the biggest U.S. cable company said it had created a new venture called ComcastTIX that will handle ticket sales for all events at the Wachovia Center and Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia and at three other arenas in the city and in New Jersey.
The venture brings together several Comcast-owned assets, including the two Philly arenas, which are owned by its Comcast-Spectacor unit. That venture also owns the Philadelphia Flyers National Hockey League team and the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. The first events for which ComcastTIX handled ticket sales were individual Flyers games, which went...
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